Saturday, 18 April 2009

Weekend Educational Feature

The internet is not only a great place to keep up with your favourite bloggers, buy books and view porn. It can also be very educational. There is everyone's favourite reference source, Wikipedia:

There are also a lot of talks and course materials that are now being made available online. For example, the Google Tech Talks, which cover computers, sicences, social sciences and the arts, while Academic Earth has links to entire series of university lectures.

I've been spending quite a bit of time watching some of the Computer Science talks, which I've found very interesting. And of course, educational.

As you know, I like to keep up with the latest trends, and so I've decided to offer the following courses online. I am having some difficulties though:

How to Get Rich Quick: This module has had to be cancelled owing to the fact that none of the experts in this field were willing to leave the beach in Barbados to work for the fee they were being offered.

Anarchy 101: Nothing has been organised.

A Practical Course in Housekeeping: Despite the fact that there are no exams or lectures - all the marks are awarded for the coursework (which involves students proving that they can keep my flat clean, ensure a plentiful supply of ironed clothes and make me tasty and nutritious meals), no-one has signed up for it.

Even with the initial setbacks, I'm not giving up. After all, I bet the people who founded our great institutes all those centuries ago had the same problems.